"If you're in good enough to be in league 2, you should be good enough to deal with our l1 premade. stop being a salty loser"

??????????????????a real l1 premade said this to me and i just don't understand

Maybe they think that the L2s are good enough to compete with L1s? I kind of agree with that, philosophically, as in, you shouldn't let your league stop you from challenging someone from a higher league... But there are such things as "high L2" and "low L2"... as in, there are L2 players who are only a few rating points away from making to L1, but there are also L2 players who are only few points away from dropping back to L3. High L2s might be indistinguishable from L1s, but I don't think it is accurate to lump the whole L2 together and saying they are all good enough to compete with L1 premades.

Besides, being in a premade undeniably gives you a lot of advantages. Even more so if the whole team are good players. I think it's natural to be miffed when faced against such team when your teammates are just random strangers. The "salty loser" comment is definitely uncalled for too. They could have said something more constructive like "you could form your own team" instead. (Yes, I know forming a team is easier said than done, but this suggestion would still be infinitely better than that "salty loser" comment.)

Maybe they think that the L2s are good enough to compete with L1s? I kind of agree with that, philosophically, as in, you shouldn't let your league stop you from challenging someone from a higher league... But there are such things as "high L2" and "low L2"... as in, there are L2 players who are only a few rating points away from making to L1, but there are also L2 players who are only few points away from dropping back to L3. High L2s might be indistinguishable from L1s, but I don't think it is accurate to lump the whole L2 together and saying they are all good enough to compete with L1 premades.

This is not how this works. This is not how any of this works...

Leagues don't matter at all in matchmaking. Just rating and only rating. You can forget leagues even exist.

Anywho...Mmmmmm that feel when you have two good players on your team who work together well and listen to each-other's communication, but lose because your third player is an armless chimpanzee using a computer who dies 3 times in 3 minutes.